About a week ago.
Kassy: Mommy, is alcohol bad for little kids?
Me, with my eyebrows raised: Yes, why do you ask?
Kassy: Because Jill (fake name for a friend) said it was. She said the cops would come get us if tried some. And Jill gave us a squirt.
Hadley: Mommy, what does that look on your face mean?
Me, trying to look normal: I am just confused. What do you mean a squirt?
Kassy looks frantically at her sister, trying to communicate something without words and then she starts crying: Will you tell the police?
Me: Hold on girls. What happened? I promise the police won't come and get you.
There is a bottle of hair detangler in the upstairs bathroom. It's been empty of hair detangler for over a year, filled instead with water, which seems to work just as well. The girls squirted the hair detangler in their mouths. Jill read the ingredients and the second and third ingredients are kinds of alcohol, like isopropyl alcohol. There is so much to teach our kids! I did call Jill's mom and tell her the story in case Jill had told her own version. Jill was too afraid to tell the story, but her mom got a good laugh.
1 comment:
This is funny and scary all at the same time. Aren't you so proud that they told you?
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